somone please explain my altneator troubles.

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on my rb20 i been having problems with my altneators i replaced it once before already.

the last altneator and now the replaccement one both do the same thing

they make a very loud annoying sound, the altneator pulley starts to smoke and get hott and smells like rubber. I checked the belt but there is never any rubber that's been burnt off the belt.

at first i spray wd40 on the pulley wheel to see if i could just stop the noise because I been trying to time my rb20 with a timing light but i can't work onit when i have a loud annoying sound killing my ears.

so i dont get what cause 2 altneators to do this and do the exact same thing?

its really starting to get me upsett because i can never work on the engine on what i have to work on and fix becasue my altneators keep crapping on me. ughhh..

anybody know?

the belt on the alt has not been replaced yet.


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From the sounds of it it sounds like you have the alternator belt on way too tight. For both to do the exact same thing like that, I cant think of anything else it could be.


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